Assembly line Balancing-
Assembly line balancing is a production strategy that sets an intended rate of production to produce a particular product within a particular time frame. Also, the assembly line needs to be designed effectively and tasks needs to be distributed among workers, machines and work stations ensuring that every line segments in the production process can be met within the time frame and available production capacity. Assembly line balancing can also be defined as assigning proper number of workers or machines for each operations of an assembly line so as to meet required production rate with minimum or zero ideal time.
Benefits of Assembly Line Balancing in organization.
- Improved process efficiency
- Increased production rate
- Reduced total processing time
- Minimum or Zero Ideal Time
- Potential increase in profits and decrease in cost
CONCLUSION
In the above example we could clearly understand that with proper arrangement and allocation of activities and tasks to individual workstations in assembly, we could increase production by 14%. In the manufacturing industry it is always necessary to re-arrange the activities based on individual workstations so that the total processing time can be optimized and the effort – well balanced, leading to optimum level of production.
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